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Report of Schimmel 8j Co. April 1913. 



Camphor Oil. As in previous years, the bulk of the crude camphor oil brought 

 to market in Japan in the course of the winter was shipped to the United States, where 

 great value is notoriously attached to the preparation on a wholesale scale of a fraction 

 with a sp.gr. 1,07, which is used under the name of "artificial sassafras oil" for all 

 manner of technical purposes. As for ourselves, we are primarily interested in the 

 manufacture of pure safrol, and we have also received several large shipments of crude 

 oil, the cost of which figures out at a little less money than that of previous imports. 

 In spite of this fact, we have been unable to lower the quotations of our two by-products, 

 "light" and "heavy" camphor oil, which is testimony to the manifold technical purposes 

 for which the two articles are employed. The use of the oils in question has in no 

 way been restricted by the fall in the value of turpentine oil. Considerable quantities 

 of them are used up in the manufacture of cheap disinfectants, a branch of industry 

 which has lately acquired such a great importance. 



In the Financial and Economic Annual of japan l ) t published by the Imperial 

 Department of Finance at Tokio, we find the following statistical data on the production 

 of camphor and camphor oil in japan during the years 1901 to 1910. 





No. 



Cam 



phor 



Camp! 



ior oil 



Total value 



Year 



of plants 



Kin 



Yen 



Kin 



Yen 



Yen 



1901 



1 



932 



2001219 



1309375 



1254166 



195853 



1505228 



1902 



1299 



2549556 



1841910 



789453 



158052 



1999962 * 



1903 



1219 



2211438 



1828953 



432820 



129826 



1 958779 



1904 



1717 



638796 



330043 



714370 



202191 



532234 



1905 



1564 



600085 



329916 



652556 



189417 



519333 



1906 



1617 



734625 



436281 



850464 



264847 



701 129 



1907 



1618 



746729 



474605 



959316 



316356 



790961 



1908 



1793 



826367 



517723 



1 023903 



333756 



851 479 



1909 



1931 



832271 



461218 



1 143454 



328741 



789959 



1910 2 ) 



2615 



1054343 



587040 



1 663324 



477350 



1064390 



The exports of camphor from Japan in the last decade were as follows 3 ): 



1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



Yen 



3904973 

 3404833 

 3537844 

 3168197 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 



Yen 



2566233 

 3632785 

 5026858 

 2063410 



Yen 



1909 3469398 



1910 2964369 



1911 3143084 



P. 191 of the same Annual contains a statistical review of the camphor production 



in Formosa: 



1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 



Camphor 

 Kin 



3667887 

 3148742 

 3595814 

 3540953 

 2865117 



Camphor oil 

 Kin ' 



2587186 

 2388135 

 2678794 

 2805809 

 2373788 



Camphor Camphor oi 





Kin 



Kin 



1906 



3252408 



2986023 



1907 



3914598 



4180894 



1908 



3534970 



4446823 



1909 



3537712 



3870254 



1910 



5360642 



5858145 



x ) Finanz. u. wirtschaftl. Jahrbuch f. Japan 12 (1912), 75. — *) The figures for the years preceding 1904 

 refer to the calendar years, while those from 1905 (inclusive) onwards represent the results of the financial 

 year. — 3 ) Finanz. u. wirtschaftl. Jahrbuch f. Japan 12 (1912), 104. 



